mxcl/homebrew — Issue #8944: Fix things that depend on pcre
Author: jacknagel
Created: 2011-12-02 20:30:42+00:00
State: open

Since (some versions of?) OS X lacks libpcre headers, but does have the library, things in Homebrew that use pcre must `depends_on 'pcre'` but may link against the OS X library anyway.

When possible, we should always specify `--with-pcre-prefix=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}` (or whatever the correct option is).

I haven't audited the formula, but I count 38 formula that use pcre so there are probably some offenders.